Magnetic Maps

I pinned this yesterday on Pinterest, I originally saw it on Pioneer Woman's Pinterest site. I think this is a great idea for classrooms (general education and special education at all age levels), homeschool and just plain fun. What do you think?

I would use it as a map on a cookie sheet or magnetic whiteboard for special ed and elementary age up through middle school. Many (if not most) students I meet wouldn't be able to put together a free-form map like this of the US. It's a good skill to have.

Also, it would be fun to have kids pick a state and then have a reading and writing assignment on that state, making this an easy way to assign a state to a student. One could use a variety of teaching styles to having students find out specifics about a state, or the art, culinary traditions, oral traditions of the state or simply the capital and major geographic aspects of the state. This assignment would be very easy to differentiate for all manners of learners in a classroom for both individual and group use.